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Re:How AWS Cloud is demolishing the cult of youth by jacques_chester on Thursday May 25, 2017 @01:21PM (#14418665)
> It seems the author is not aware of past examples.

Because the author is plucking one set of anecdata and comparing with another plucked set of anecdata.

Nowhere in the entire article is any actual demographics about any of the companies.

All of them publish staff demographics (EEO-1 reports) for gender and race. As far as I can tell, none publish for age.

Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/b?node=10080092011 (search for 'demographic')

Google: https://www.google.com/diversity/

Facebook: https://fbnewsroomus.files.wordpress.com/2016/07/eeo-1_2015....

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Re:How AWS Cloud is demolishing the cult of youth by CobrastanJorji on Thursday May 25, 2017 @01:30PM (#14418717)
Exactly. Basing an article entirely on famous people over 30 that companies have hired is stupid, but even if you wanted to use that as your yardstick for some stupid reason, AWS still doesn't win. Sure, they have James Gosling (age 62), but Google has Vint Cerf (age 73).
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